Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.
For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.
I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.
I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.
I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.